"The U.S. Navy’s Secret Counter-Stealth Weapon ..." Topic

…Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight.

"The Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye maybe the U.S. Navy's secret weapon against the emerging threat of enemy fifth-generation stealth fighters and cruise missiles.

The key to that capability is the aircraft's powerful UHF-band hybrid mechanical/electronically-scanned AN/APY-9 radar built by Lockheed Martin. Both friend and foe alike have touted UHF radars as an effective countermeasure to stealth technology.

One example of that is a paper prepared by Arend Westra that appeared in the National Defense University's Joint Forces Quarterly academic journal in the 4th quarter issue of 2009…"
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Amicalement
Armand

stealth is a neat trick when it works… but putting all your eggs in one basket is dumb…

You can also track them using weather radar systems and custom software :)… They leave trails in the water vapor like all fast moving aircraft.

No news there. Its been a given that the current stealth designs could be seen by UHF radars (albeit, at a lower resolution). Anyone with a functioning brain knows that (of course, that leaves out the marketing department, upper management and lobbyists of every defense contractor… of BOTH sides).